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MNC Dover

Welcome to the Nintendo 3DS thread!

This is the thread for general 3DS discussion. To keep the conversation from getting too busy, try to look for other threads before posting about something in here. For example, the eShop Thread is a good place to talk about Nintendo digital store. Big game releases like Mario Kart or Zelda also tend to have their own threads. There's no hard rule against discussing those games in here, but this is a nice place to talk about smaller titles that would be unable to sustain their own threads, and obviously those larger games can easily crowd everyone else out. Finally, don't be discouraged from making game-specific threads if you feel it warrants attention. This is sort of a catch-all thread.


Games, Games, Games!


Great 3DS games that you should totally own (in no particular order):

Cave Story
Super Mario 3D Land
Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars
Super Street Fighter 4 3D
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
Star Fox 64 3D
Shinobi
Nano Assault
Sonic Generations
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked
Mario Kart 7
Dead or Alive: Dimensions
Resident Evil: Revelations
Tekken
Tales of the Abyss
Kid Icarus Uprising
Rhythm Thief
Kingdom Hearts: Drop Dream Distance
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Mario Tennis Open
New Super Mario Bros. 2
Harvest Moon: A New Beginning
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Mirror Fate
Soul Hackers
Etrian Odyssey 4


Upcoming games to look out for in 2013:

Bravely Default: Flying Fairy
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Monster Hunter 4
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
Project X-Zone
Rune Factory 4
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Mutant Mudds 2
Mario Golf: World Tour
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Pokemon X/Y



eShop, Virtual Console, DSi, and Club Nintendo games


The Nintendo eShop

Plenty of games, movies, and apps to be found here. Download Virtual Console and DSi games, movies trailers, demos, or try out some new 3D remakes of classic games. For a complete list of games available, click on this link.

Download Full Games!

With the release of New Super Mario Bros. 2, Nintendo will be finally stepping into THE FUTURE and offering their "full" retail games as digital downloads. Just slap in an SD card, and you're good to go. Death to the cartridge!

Great eShop games that you should totally own (in no particular order):

Twin Bee
Mighty Switch Force
Pushmo
Crashmo
VVVVVV
Zen Pinball
Mutant Mudds
Kid Icarus
Sakura Samurai
Liberation Maiden
Excitebike
Bomb Monkey
Kirby's Adventure
NightSky
HarmoKnight
Dillion's Rolling Western
Unchained Blades
Picdun 2


Virtual Console games

You can download older games on the 3DS. Classic portable systems such as the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, and the TurboGrafx-16 and NES. For a complete list of games available, click on this link.

Great VC games that you should totally own (in no particular order):

Super Mario Land (GB)
Donkey Kong (GB)
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (GB)
Metroid II: Return of Samus (GB)
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (GBC)
Blaster Master: Enemy Below (GBC)
Tetris (GB)
Gradius (NES)
Ghost and Goblins (NES)
Wario Land (GB)
Goemon (GB)
Mole Mania (GB)
Mario Golf (GBC)
Kirby's Dream Land (GB)
Castlevania (NES)
Megaman 1-3 (NES)
Legend of the River King (GBC)
Super Mario Bros (NES)
Zelda 1 and 2 (NES)
Donkey Kong Jr. (NES)
Punch Out!! (NES)
Ninja Gaiden (NES)
Mighty Bomb Jack (NES)
Super Mario Bros: Lost Levels (NES)
Super C (NES)



DSi games

Older DSi games are also available for download on the 3DS as well. There are plenty to choose from and, to make everyone's life easier, our own UncleSporky has created a list of some of the best games to get. Here is a site that reviews DSiware games.The only site I know of that reviews every DSiware game

Great DSi games that you should totally own (in no particular order):

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure
Shantae: Risky's Revenge (amazing platformer)
Art Style: AQUITE/AQUIA (puzzle game with a neat aesthetic)
Art Style: PiCTOBiTS (pixel puzzle game)
Dark Void Zero (old school platformer)
X-Scape (first person space shooter thing)
Cave Story (another amazing platformer)
Dr. Mario Express (classic puzzle game)
Puzzle Challenge Express (classic puzzle game)
Photo Dojo (simple but hilarious 2 player fighting game)
Rayman (classic 2D platformer)
Mighty Flip Champs! (platform puzzler)
Alphabounce (long, extensive brick-breaking RPG)
Soul of Darkness (quality Castlevania knockoff)
Inchworm Animation (full featured animation studio)
Zenonia (great Zelda-style RPG)
Ivy the Kiwi? Mini (weird little platform puzzler)
Mighty Milky Way (gravity-based puzzler from the Shantae people)
Dragon Quest Wars (tiny strategy game)
Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! (great puzzler)
Castle of Magic (action platformer)
Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ (just...what)
Chronos Twins (interesting dual screen mechanic action game)
Plants vs. Zombies (duh)
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (if you haven't played it yet)
Viking Invasion (tower defense)
Gaia's Moon (side scroller action)


Free games via Club Nintendo:

Nintendo is now allowing players to buy download games for their Wii, DSi, and 3DS via the Club Nintendo website. All first party games, and some third party titles, offer codes that you can enter on the official Nintendo website. Fill out a survey and earn coins (and an additional follow-up survey for extra coins). The coins can buy a variety of posters, cases, and various neat stuff. But the games are where it's at. Every month, Nintendo is offering up four games to download.


Featured Applications:

Nintendo Video: A free download app that randomly adds short 3D movies to watch. Blue Man Group, College Humor, and Dreamworks have all contributed.
SwapNote: A free download app that allows you to send notes, pics, and sound clips to friends via Street Pass or Spot Pass.
Netflix: Link your account to your 3DS to watch (2d) movies on the small screen.
Hulu Plus: Just like Netflix, link your account to watch TV shows on the go.
3D movie recording: Record up to 10 minutes of 3D footage and upload it to youtube.
Game demos: Download demos of upcoming 3DS releases.
System Transfer: Transfer information from an existing DS, DSi, or 3DS to a 3DS. Great for when the inevitable redesign hits the scene.
A full list of additional built-in software can be found on Nintendo's 3DS site.


Other final things to do as a 3DS owner:


Connect with fellow PA people

Sir Ultimos has created a friend code matching system for us to easily connect with each other. Check it out: Sir Ultimos web site and friend code matcher.

MNC Dover

Hey guys, take a moment to help me update the game lists in the OP. Thanks!

skeldare

Can't think of anything that's not there, so it must be a great OP.

Edit: Only thing missing is a snazzy thread title.

Warlock82

Wario Land (GB) for VC

maximumzero

We need a catchy title!

"something something Three Dimensions, Two Sizes, One Nintendo, Zero Competition"

skeldare

Warlock82 wrote: »

Wario Land (GB) for VC

That's right! And maybe Kirby's Dream Land and Mario Golf?

Warlock82

Also, I have heard but not played personally:
Goemon (GB) and Mole Mania (GB)

And yes on Kirby. Also Kirby's Adventure (3D Classics) is good too!

Edit: Also for upcoming:
-Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Mirror Fate
-new Shantae: I am too lazy to go look at what the real title is (eShop)

Edit 2: DSiWare - Petit Computer

maximumzero

I might make you some graphics for the OP if I'm not feeling terribly lazy later.

ArcSyn

If you do a transfer from 3DS to XL, does your friend code change or does it stay the same?

skeldare

ArcSyn wrote: »

If you do a transfer from 3DS to XL, does your friend code change or does it stay the same?

Stays the same.

maximumzero

ArcSyn wrote: »

If you do a transfer from 3DS to XL, does your friend code change or does it stay the same?

Think of it as a brain transplant. Everything moves over.

Everything.

Everything.

MNC Dover

Updated OP! I knew I forgot the title. >.<

Added more games to the various lists to. Keep the suggestions coming folks.

Edit: Also, what about NightSky, Fractured Soul, Code of Princess, and Layton? I haven't played any of them yet but heard good things. Are they list worthy?

The Wolfman

Layton is... Layton. It's more of the same, so if you loved the previous games, you'll clearly love this one.

Though I wonder if people are getting bored of it, for no other reason than that nobody anywhere is talking about it. It was like this starting with the 3rd game. Just ignored mostly everywhere. Then again, they keep making more of them, so they're obviously selling.

Roe

Ahh.. New thread smell. Show of hands who's getting paper Mario sticker.

Also, I'm having a problem keeping the 3d with my 3ds XL. The screen requires precise holding compared to the original 3DS to keep the 3d working well.

skeldare

Roe wrote: »

Ahh.. New thread smell.

Show of hands who's getting paper Mario sticker.

I'll be downloading it at 9PM Pacific on Saturday.

Warlock82

skeldare wrote: »

Roe wrote: »

Ahh.. New thread smell.

Show of hands who's getting paper Mario sticker.

I'll be downloading it at 9PM Pacific on Saturday.

Is that when the download comes out? I wanted to make sure I grabbed it Sat. night so the sure-to-be-long-as-hell download could keep going while I'm sleeping

skeldare

Warlock82 wrote: »

skeldare wrote: »

Roe wrote: »

Ahh.. New thread smell.

Show of hands who's getting paper Mario sticker.

I'll be downloading it at 9PM Pacific on Saturday.

Is that when the download comes out? I wanted to make sure I grabbed it Sat. night so the sure-to-be-long-as-hell download could keep going while I'm sleeping

It's available 12 AM Eastern time. Been able to download NSMB2 and Layton at this time.

Warlock82

Ah, so 11pm for me That works out nice. Now I just need to freaking remember.

RockinX

Dover, I must say that the title of the thread is awesome! :^:

Warlock82

The zero competition part is hilarious to me because WTF is wrong with Sony? I think they've run Vita WORSE than PSP thus far...

TDawg

I think the Vita situation is really sad because they've actually made a really nice piece of hardware this time around with some cool new ideas integrated into it. I think we might just have to wait a few years for it to come into its own.

BigJoeM

The only thing that could save the Vita is if for some unfathomable reason COD declassified and Soul Sacrifice sell like gangbusters and get the Japanese and American markets clamoring for the system.

I'm not seeing either of those things happening.

How good the hardware is means practically nothing for portables.

It's all about software and Sony is not capable of sustaining a platform by itself.

UncleSporky

MNC Dover wrote: »

Updated OP! I knew I forgot the title. >.<

Added more games to the various lists to. Keep the suggestions coming folks.

Edit: Also, what about NightSky, Fractured Soul, Code of Princess, and Layton? I haven't played any of them yet but heard good things. Are they list worthy?

NightSky is NintendoLife's second 10/10 eShop game. The other is Zelda DX, so it's the first new game with that rating.

I have the PC version and I played it all the way through and loved it, so I can totally see that. Barring technical issues it should be a 10/10 on 3DS. Tempted to pick it up again for 3D.

By the way, you link to NintendoLife's DSiware rankings in the OP, but not eShop. They are pretty dang spot on most of the time, I would put this up there and pull some of the top games as recommendations.

Notice I filtered it to eShop only, you can filter GBC games, GB games, whatever.

initiatefailure

So the new club Nintendo game is Mario picross. Is that a good coin investment?

ArcSyn

The Wolfman wrote: »

Layton is... Layton. It's more of the same, so if you loved the previous games, you'll clearly love this one.

Though I wonder if people are getting bored of it, for no other reason than that nobody anywhere is talking about it. It was like this starting with the 3rd game. Just ignored mostly everywhere. Then again, they keep making more of them, so they're obviously selling.

I'm always a game behind in Layton, I just finished Unwound Future and I still haven't 100% it or the previous one or done the download puzzles. I need a good few months before picking up another puzzle heavy game.

Been playing Yoshi's Island, White 2, and Kid Icarus so it will be a while before I get to the recent and upcoming 3DS releases.

Xenogears of Bore

Harvest Moon: A New Beginning is the best portable version in almost a decade.
Code of Princess is a simplified Guardian Heroes. Probably not worth 40 bucks but a good game.

initiatefailure

So apparently theatrythym had a story and I apparently just beat it after reaching 10k rythymia points or something.

I still have so much to do in the game I feel like 10k points will be nothing by the time it's over with

maximumzero

I really hope Nintendo integrates the 3DS and Wii U often. I thought the GC>GBA linkup stuff was supercool and considering the popularity of the Wii, the popularity of the DS, and the fact that you don't need a dang cable, I was hoping they would do it a bunch this generation, but nothing really came of it.

skeldare

We know they're interested, so here's hoping.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/05/nintendo-interested-in-wii-u3ds-connectivity

In an interview with IGN, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto discussed Wii U and 3DS connectivity, saying that the company is thinking about ways to get the best out of both systems - but it doesn't look like it's exactly a top priority at the moment.

Nintendo has a long history of connecting its portable and home console systems, from the Game Boy Player to the N64's Transfer Pak to the myriad ways in which the Gamecube and Game Boy Advance that could be used together to enhance the experience of games like Zelda: Four Swords and Animal Crossing.

"Of course we are thinking of the possibility of connecting Wii U and Nintendo 3DS once again," Miyamoto said. "[But] we have challenged connectivity on many occasions, and one of the great lessons we have learned is the simple fact that those who own both are much fewer than those who don’t own both. So what we decided early on when considering the Wii U design was that we had to make it so that every single purchaser of the Wii U is going to have the same play conditions, the same equipment."

That doesn't mean that Nintendo is discounting the possibility of connecting the 3DS and Wii U in interesting ways, though. "Even between Wii and 3DS, there are some things that can be done by connecting with each other – Mii channel is interchangeable on both systems," Miyamoto reminds us. "There are things that can easily done by transferring data between Wii and DS or 3DS systems.

"If we are going to do that with Wii U and 3DS, there would be three screens to consider. The reason why we were not so eager to do a similar thing between Wii and DS if that it would have become very complicated using two screens on the DS and one screen on the Wii. But of course we are trying to think about a way to expand the experience of 3DS and Wii U when they are connected with each other, one way or the other."

Look out for our full interview with Miyamoto very soon indeed.

MNC Dover

initiatefailure wrote: »

So the new club Nintendo game is Mario picross. Is that a good coin investment?

Yes. YES! YEESSSS!!!

STOP READING THIS AND DOWNLOAD IT ALREADY!

Updated the OP with game and link suggestions. Also can't take credit for the thread title, that honor goes to @maximumzero.

LBD_Nytetrayn

Roe wrote: »

Ahh.. New thread smell. Show of hands who's getting paper Mario sticker.

Already there!

And NightSky is indeed listworthy.

Wraithverge

Thanks for making the thread @MNC Dover ! I'm going to pick up Paper Mario. Not sure what to expect but people love the series so much and I need something new to stick in my 3DS.

Roe

Is it just me, or are the sound clips that play when you're talking to a character in OoT 3d cut from the game?

skeldare

Roe wrote: »

Is it just me, or are the sound clips that play when you're talking to a character in OoT 3d cut from the game?

You mean the character sounds? It's just you.

WotanAnubis

I hadn't planned on getting a 3DS until the release of Fire Emblem: Awakening until I discovered New Style Boutique comes out next week. That's Style Savvy: Trendsetters for you in the US.

Am... Am I the only one here interested in this title?

Brainiac 8

Thanks for making the thread MNC. I was going to, but never was able to get the time together this week at all.

Fantastic OP.

Also, everyone buy Theatrhythm...so they'll make a Chrono series based game!

initiatefailure

I did! Although I'm definitely not a fan of their $50 of dlc plus tax.

And it's too bad you don't unlock new songs except in dark notes.

Xenogears of Bore

The game has something around 80 songs without buying a single stitch of DLC. That's not bad at all.

initiatefailure

Really? I guess I haven't gotten that far through it yet. I've only done maybe a dozen dark notes so far.

A few dark notes have had new songs but a lot are repeats from the series and I just unlocked encore which I assume will get more songs as I get more points

To be fair most of the time I don't notice and I'm too busy having fun, but actually seeing the dlc shop makes me hope Nintendo cards get put on sale someday

The Wolfman

The dark notes only use 20 songs total, so you're going to see a lot of repeats. It's by far the weakest part of the game, despite having the most potential.

The real chunk of the game is all in the series modes.

Roe

WotanAnubis wrote: »

I hadn't planned on getting a 3DS until the release of Fire Emblem: Awakening until I discovered New Style Boutique comes out next week. That's Style Savvy: Trendsetters for you in the US.

Am... Am I the only one here interested in this title?

I was waiting until they made a Majora's Mask 3d, but I ended up buying a red XL because I didn't touch my other games (three of them) which I bought with my normal 3DS I traded in.

I don't think there will be a significant drop in cost for the 3DS XL before your game is released, so why not pick it up now?